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	'<{title}>' => 'Recipes cannot be copyrighted!',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/05/20.jpg" alt="Flower bushes at my complex" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="dreams">
	<h2>Dream journal</h2>
	<p>
		I dreamed that I needed to use the restroom, so I found a public one and went in.
		I noticed my reflection in the mirror, and I&apos;d grown a long moustache, longer than I&apos;ve ever had before, despite having shaved that very morning.
		As I started examining myself in the mirror to try to make scene of this shocking development, I found I some patches of shortish hairs growing out of my lips as well.
		Shocked and horrified, I turned my lips out to get a better look at the hairs, and found I had patches of even shorter hairs growing gust inside my mouth.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I hadn&apos;t considered the possibility of receiving a completely wrong file.
			You make a good point that this could happen though.
			Without proper session information as would be provided by $a[TCP], transmissions very well could end up received by the wrong process.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="tooth">
	<h2>Tooth</h2>
	<p>
		I&apos;ve been feeling horrible lately.
		Not so much physically, but mentally and emotionally.
		I don&apos;t have the energy to keep on top of things.
		I&apos;ve been falling behind on coursework, then rushing to get it done on the final day before it&apos;s due.
		I&apos;ve been putting off my journal entry writing until the day <strong>*after*</strong> that&apos;s due, then rushing to catch up.
		I don&apos;t want to go out, but I don&apos;t feel like doing anything when I&apos;m in.
		I wash my laundry every week, but I don&apos;t fold it any more.
		I assumed school&apos;s been weighing on me again.
		The immutable fact is that since the needless threats from the school came, coursework has gone from being the highlight of my day to being the worst chore I have to deal with.
	</p>
	<p>
		I didn&apos;t want to admit it at first, but a few days ago, I started recognising the type of ear infection I had constantly before, one that had come from the spreading of an infection from my bad teeth.
		That one remaining tooth that has needed to be pulled has run its course.
		I need to have it pulled now.
		Today at work though, I put all the pieces together: it&apos;s been this infection that&apos;s dragging me to depths of this moody chasm!
		Just like last time!
		To be sure, the school&apos;s having a horrid effect on me, but it&apos;s not as bad as this.
	</p>
	<p>
		The health insurance people wrote to probably about a week ago asking for proof of my current income level.
		I&apos;ve already sent that via post, seeing as their websites so horribly broken that it deleted my forms every time I submit them.
		I don&apos;t even want to try submitting my proof of income through the website for fear that I&apos;ll lose coverage before I find out they&apos;ve messed everything up again.
		The fact remains that they&apos;re imbeciles though, so I can&apos;t trust them to do their jobs correctly and I can&apos;t trust things to go smoothly.
		I have to <strong>*anticipate*</strong> a loss of coverage, which means I need to get this dental work done as soon as possible.
		No more waiting.
		That means I need to put off the job hunt.
		Again.
		Ugh.
		I feel so trapped.
		I need to catch back up on everything before I can schedule an appointment though; I can&apos;t let the appointment drag me further behind.
		Ironically, the sooner I have this tooth extracted, the sooner I can be infection free and feeling like myself again, which would make it easier to catch up.
		If I had more time before deadlines so I could spare a day or two of lost time, I&apos;d get the tooth removed first.
	</p>
	<p>
		My natural state is a state of decay.
		My teeth are falling apart, and without modern medicine, I&apos;d have to suffer in pain and gloom the rest of my life.
		My skin is terrible.
		On a semi-regular basis, it starts falling apart too.
		The only difference is that skin heals and recovers.
		Teeth don&apos;t.
		I believe in survival of the fittest.
		I always have.
		And clearly, I am not the fittest.
		I&apos;ve change a lot in the past few years, but I hope I never change enough to become cruel enough to pass copies of my $a[DNA] to the next generation.
		As I&apos;ve said before, the most loving thing I can do for my children is to not create them in the first place.
		Those of us with bad $a[DNA] should remove ourselves from the gene pool.
		Future generations will thank us.
		I&apos;m not saying we should off ourselves or anything.
		That&apos;s both extreme and extremely unnecessary.
		Deciding not to spread our misfortune to new life seems like the logical move though, and an ethical obligation.
		It&apos;s a shame that most people don&apos;t seem to understand this obligation.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="copyright">
	<h2>Recipes and copyright</h2>
	<p>
		When my I got home, I found my mother&apos;d left me another cookbook.
		I&apos;m not sure why she gives them to me; she knows I don&apos;t use recipes.
		I just throw things together until they work.
		Or until they go terribly.
		It depends on how well I do.
		The ranch recipe I&apos;ve been building on has been a <strong>*huge*</strong> deviation.
		It&apos;s been kind of out of character for me.
		Ignoring the fact that this cookbook is vegetarian; not vegan; so I can&apos;t even touch most of these recipes, I can&apos;t change the recipes and (publicly) record my alterations.
		For that reason, I&apos;m haven&apos;t been very inclined to even try anything in these books.
	</p>
	<p>
		But what if I <strong>*can*</strong> derive from these recipes?
		I had to know.
		Some things can&apos;t be copyrighted.
		Can recipes?
		The United States copyright office&apos;s website had this to say:
	</p>
	<blockquote cite="https://copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html">
		<p>
			Copyright law does not protect recipes that are mere listings of ingredients.
			Nor does it protect other mere listings of ingredients such as those found in formulas, compounds, or prescriptions.
			Copyright protection may, however, extend to substantial literary expression—a description, explanation, or illustration, for example—that accompanies a recipe or formula or to a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		(Due to the CloudFlare $a[CAPTCHA] wall that website employs, I won&apos;t provide a direct, clickable link, but if you want to see that page, just search for <code>&lt;blockquote cite=&quot;</code> in the source code of this page.)
	</p>
	<p>
		The ingredients in a recipe and the steps to produce the result cannot be copyrighted, but the expression of those steps can be!
		This is huge.
		It means that paraphrasing saves you from any copyright infringement one would otherwise be engaging in when deriving from a recipe.
		I have the entire Internet as a resource for cooking ideas, should I want to take up doing something fancy with food besides this home made ranch I&apos;ve been concocting.
		Also, of course, I have these cook books, if I&apos;m looking for ideas instead of for something specific.
		(Keep in mind that this applies only in my country, and laws in your own country may differ.
		Also, I&apos;m not a lawyer and this isn&apos;t legal advice.)
	</p>
</section>
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